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Notable: An Insider’s Perspective On President Trump’s Transformation Of The Federal Judiciary

During the first two years of his presidency, two Supreme Court justices and 83 lower-court judges secured confirmation, in the 115th Congress. In the second half of his term to date, the 116th Congress, he’s seen 12 judges confirmed, bringing his total number of Article III judicial appointees to 97. With the Senate now back from its Easter recess and with 43 nominees out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and awaiting floor votes, President Trump should hit — and, in fact, blow past — the 100-judge marker very soon.

President Trump will go down in history as an extremely effective and consequential president on judicial nominations, even if his administration ends tomorrow (as many of his detractors fervently hope). But he shouldn’t get all the credit for confirmations; so much of it belongs to his former White House Counsel, Don McGahn, and the Senate Republicans, ably led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).

They’re not the only ones who deserve kudos. Congratulations — and thanks, if you’re a supporter of the Trump appointments — should also go to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The SJC plays a key gatekeeper role when it comes to judicial nominations, and then-Chairman Grassley worked tirelessly to keep that gate open for Trump’s judicial picks in the last Congress, even in the face of strong Democratic opposition.

Gratitude also goes to the wind beneath the senators’ wings: the staffers who work tirelessly, for much less pay than they could earn in the private sector, to make sure the senators can do their jobs effectively. (Senator Amy Klobuchar, we’re looking at you.)

A critical staffer on judicial nominations, Mike Davis, former Chief Nominations Counsel to then-Chairman Grassley, spoke earlier this month before the Columbia Federalist Society. I refer to Davis as “critical,” but that might be an understatement. He played a crucial role in the Trump judicial revolution, which is why the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) recently honored him with the 2019 Betty Murphy Award.

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/04/an-insiders-perspective-on-president-trumps-transformation-of-the-federal-judiciary/

Notable: Pompeo: ‘Military force is available’ to oust Maduro ‘if that’s what it takes’

Pompeo: ‘Military force is available’ to oust Maduro ‘if that’s what it takes’

President Trump is willing to use “military force” to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Tuesday evening. “We hope there can be a peaceful resolution and that Maduro will leave without violence,” Pompeo told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “We’re watching those who are engaged in violence and we will hold them accountable. But the president has made very, very clear that we are going to ensure that Venezuelan democracy is restored.”

Pompeo made those comments in response to Venezuelan accusations that the United States has deployed 3,000 people to the U.S. Embassy in neighboring Colombia “planning for war” against Venezuela. The top U.S. diplomat declined to comment on the exact number of Americans at the embassy — “they change from day to day,” he demurred — but left the distinct impression that Trump means for Maduro to leave the easy way or the hard way. “If the question is, is the United States prepared to consider military action if that’s what it takes to restore the democracy there in Venezuela, the president’s been consistent and unambiguous about that, that the option to use military force is available if that’s what is ultimately called for,” he said.

Pompeo’s comments advanced the American threat of military force beyond previous U.S. stipulations “all options are on the table,” aired to deter the potential threats against opposition lawmaker Juan Guaidó. Trump recognized Guaidó as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela in January, after Maduro took the oath of office based on an election that regional observers deemed fraudulent, but the heir to the late socialist President Hugo Chávez has clung to power with Russian and Cuban support and the practical loyalty of the Venezuelan military. Pompeo’s comments advanced the American threat of military force beyond previous U.S. stipulations “all options are on the table,” aired to deter the potential threats against opposition lawmaker Juan Guaidó. Trump recognized Guaidó as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela in January, after Maduro took the oath of office based on an election that regional observers deemed fraudulent, but the heir to the late socialist President Hugo Chávez has clung to power with Russian and Cuban support and the practical loyalty of the Venezuelan military. “I hear sometimes people saying, well, the United States is considering an invasion. The invasion has taken place,” Pompeo said. “The Cubans have thousands of their officers inside of Venezuela today. They are not there with the consent of the government; they’re there with the consent of the thug Nicolás Maduro, but not Juan Guaidó, the duly elected leader of the Venezuelan government today. And for the Russians it’s the same.”

That external support was critical earlier Tuesday morning, according to Pompeo, when Maduro came close to admitting defeat as Guaidó rallied the Venezuelan troops who have defected to his side and called for the rest of the military to abandon Maduro. “He had an airplane on the tarmac, he was ready to leave this morning, as we understand it, and the Russians indicated he should stay,” Pompeo said in a CNN interview. “He was headed for Havana … the fact that Maduro’s plane was parked on the tarmac and he was preparing himself to depart is a fact.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pompeo-military-force-is-available-to-oust-maduro-if-thats-what-it-takes

Notable: Adam Schitt: Intel agencies went 'dark' on Trump-Russia investigation after Comey fired

Adam Schiff: Intel agencies went 'dark' on Trump-Russia investigation after Comey fired

Intelligence agencies stopped updating the House Intelligence Committee about the counterintelligence into President Trump's 2016 campaign after former FBI Director James Comey was fired, Chairman Adam Schiff said on Tuesday. Ahead of testimony by Attorney General William Barr, Schiff opened up what could be another line of questioning he faces from members of the Senate and House Judiciary committees.

"We were getting periodic counterintelligence briefings up until the point where James Comey was fired," Schiff, D-Calif., said on MSNBC. "At that point, the most significant counterintelligence investigation in recent history went into a black hole and the [Justice] Department and the intelligence community stopped fulfilling their statutory obligation to keep us fully informed of any significant counterintelligence activity. "So they've been dark now for a year and a half," he added. "And that, I think, violates the statute. We're insisting on getting full answers now."

The FBI's original Russia investigation, which began in July 2016, was later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin. Mueller was appointed special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein eight days after Trump fired Comey in May 2017. The House Intelligence Committee is one of a handful of Democrat-controlled panels that have revved up investigations into the president this year. Part of this push is to obtain the findings of the counterintelligence investigation, which Schiff said is supported by ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

"In a very atypical illustration of bipartisanship vis-a-vis the Russia investigation, Mr. Nunes and I have sent two joint requests now to the Department demanding this information," Schiff said. "We're prepared if necessary to use compulsion to get it. We want Mueller to testify, we want the underlying evidence, we want to make sure we get answers."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-intel-agencies-went-dark-on-trump-russia-investigation-after-comey-fired

Notable: Paid Speaking event by IntheMatrixxx and ShadyGrooove

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GUEST SPEAKERS:

IntheMatrixxx and ShadyGrooove

The Payseur Family story

RSE Main Campus - Yelm, US

Event starts on Wednesday, June 26 2019 at 9:30am

Event ends at approx. 4pm Wednesday, June 26 2019

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https://www.ramtha.com/events/event.aspx?id=1654

Notable: President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A

May 1= Law Day

President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-may-1-2018-law-day-u-s/

Notable: Democrat Mayor Frank Caramagna was arrested for filling in ballots of other registered voters

They're kicking butt on voter fraud!

NEW JERSEY VOTER FRAUD

Democrat Mayor Frank Caramagna was arrested for filling in ballots of other registered voters.

Caramagna is the first Democrat of Elmwood Park in nearly 50 years.

Democrats are cheating to win.

https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1123200585577136128?s=19

Notable: >>6378244 FBI Investigating Antifa For Plotting To ‘Stage An Armed Rebellion’ With Guns Purchased From Mexican Cartel

Imagine that, Q knew about the FBI investigation into ANTIFA.

In the news:

FBI Investigating Antifa For Plotting To ‘Stage An Armed Rebellion’ With Guns Purchased From Mexican Cartel

https://www.dailywire.com/news/46567/fbi-investigating-antifa-plotting-stage-armed-ashe-schow

Anons know why ANTIFA fits right into the brilliant plan!

ANTIFA & (Muslim Brotherhood) declared terrorist organizations > Activates Military > Martial Law > Deep State Arrests > PAIN > JUSTICE > Healing > World Renaissance

Enjoy the show! It is here! Q dark for a reason!

Notable: Anon on Comey's Five Job's I've had list

AGAIN.

Notable: Anon: The situation in Syria is extremely volatile (maps)

The situation in Syria is extremely volatile

It loo like the Russian and the SAA are going for a push into Idlib. They are bombing the shit out of this place!

On another front you have the SAA and the SDF confronting the Turkish backed force directly! And now Turkish Special force are getting involve!!!

Shit is about to get real!

Notable: >>6377653 Facebook Makes "Privacy" The Focus For F8

Facebook Makes "Privacy" The Focus For F8. Hands Out Free Electronic Head Devices

https://www.roadtovr.com/unconfirmed-facebook-give-away-oculus-go-f8/

https://www.vox.com/2017/4/19/15361568/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-brain-mind-reader-regina-dugan-building-f8

(This article is actually worth reading.)

Notable: >>6377647, >>6377716 FOX news about the Barr testimony: Fireworks ahead?

So…does huge Barr testimony tommorow mean [they] have huge incentive to divert our attn with a FF?

https://www.foxnews.com/

Notable: >>6377913 Anon on a possible Epstein and Jesuit connection

Regarding the Epstein Property, I noticed a similarity between the symbol of the sun with a symbol I've seen in other strange contexts. The sun with alternating rays of straight and wavy rays, with a human face.

Upon digging, it seems to have come from the sun as a heraldic charge (meaning a symbol used on coats of arms {probably worth while to dig on this further}). It seems this symbol is used by the Jesuits (think: the pope), as well as by masons (the G within the compass and square symbol actually stands for "glory," if my memory serves me. In masonry the sun represents the light bringer, which non-masons would simply call Lucifer.

This is not to say all masons are evil. I just wanted to put my symbolic research out there and see if anyone has anything to add. Maybe Epstein is a mason or a Jesuit? Just thinking out loud here.

Notable: Obama, not Trump, the true menace to the media

Good article

Obama, not Trump, the true menace to the media

https://www.washingtontimes.com

Notable: Andrew Gillum Joins Soros-Funded Dark Money Group

Andrew Gillum Joins Soros-Funded Dark Money Group After Criticizing the Practice

WASHINGTON — Failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has joined the board of advisors of The Collective, a little-known but increasingly influential progressive political organization that says it is seeking to build a “black political power” movement while its co-founder complained that there are too many “white men” holding public office. Billionaire activist George Soros is a direct financial contributor to The Collective.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/andrew-gillum-joins-soros-funded-dark-money-group-after-criticizing-practice/

Notable: Congress Passes Pro-Gun ‘Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act’

Congress Passes Pro-Gun ‘Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act’

https://www.westernjournal.com/congress-passes-pro-gun-target-practice-marksmanship-training-support-act/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=AE&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2019-04-30

Notable: , >>6377041, >>6376942 Venezuela Updates

(((▪︎Head of Venezuela's secret police breaks with Maduro▪︎)))

The head of Venezuela's feared secret police has turned his back on disputed President Nicolas Maduro in an open letter made public Tuesday night.

Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera, the head of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN), is the highest-ranking member of the country's security forces to break with Maduro since opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for a military uprising Tuesday morning.

In the letter, the authenticity of which was confirmed to The Associated Press by a U.S. official, Figuera wrote that while he always had been loyal to Maduro, "the time has come to seek new ways of doing politics" to try and "rebuild the country." The letter did not mention Guaidó by name but did say that Venezuela has experienced a damaging decline….cont.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela-secret-police-head-breaks-with-maduro

Notable: EYESON: The report Q requested us to dig on for GOOG is here

Q the report for GOOG is here!

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

____________________

FORM 10-Q

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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2019

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204419000015/goog10-qq12019.htm

Notable: Former Roger Stone associate subpoenaed ahead of trial

Former Roger Stone associate subpoenaed ahead of trial

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/30/randy-credico-subpoenaed-testify-roger-stone-trial/

Notable: Media Ignoring Persecution of Christians

Media Ignoring Persecution of Christians

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama used the term “Easter worshippers” in their tweets about the Sri Lankan church bombings. Others did as well. It was if they went out of their way to come up with another term for Christians to avoid admitting that Christians had been attacked.

Adding insult to injury, The Washington Post ran with the headline “Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West.” Tucker Carlson observed: “As if you have to be some kind of Nazi to be upset about church bombings.”

“I do wonder whether on some unconscious level the secular and broadly progressive west thinks that Christianity had it coming” wrote Giles Fraser. The British minister and social commentator observed that progressives “associate Christianity with popes and their armies, with crusades and inquisitions, with antisemitism, British imperialism, Trump supporters and abortion protesters.”

But what’s there to be upset about? “Only” 11 Christians are killed for their faitharound the world — every day.

Persecution Around the World

Will Maule at Faithwire compiled a few examples of Christian persecutions so far in 2019. Most people are unaware of them because the media coverage was so sparse. For example: In Nigeria two weeks ago, “16 Christians were slaughtered after attending a baby dedication service. Tragically, the mother of the child was one of those killed. Authorities expect the Islamic Fulani herdsmen were behind the attack.”

And in Pakistan in February: “A young Christian student, Haroon, was viciously stabbed by his classmates. He suffered grave internal injuries. ‘The attack was so terrible that Haroon’s kidney was cut into two pieces,’ said a local Christian activist.”

Had you heard either story? Seen them covered in any major liberal news source? Neither did I.

Help us champion truth, freedom, limited government and human dignity. Support The Stream »

Open Doors USA tracks Christian persecution around the world. If you get your news from the mainstream media, you might not realize how frequent violence against Christian is. Christians are the most persecuted demographic in the world. Every month, on average, 345 Christians are killed for faith-related reasons. Another 105 churches and Christian buildings are burned or attacked. And 219 Christians are detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned.

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/media-ignoring-persecution-of-christians/

Notable: Notable POTUS tweet from 1 May 2018

>>6376696

Notable: Biden and Obama dirt

>>6376824

have some more biden scum

Notable: MSNBC Venezuela Coverage Shows Why Founders Wanted Armed Citizenry

MSNBC Venezuela Coverage Shows Why

Founders Wanted Armed Citizenry

While covering Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s efforts to hold power, MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders noted Maduro has the advantage of guns against an unarmed populace.

The MSBNC segment, published by The Washington Free Beacon, begins with anchor Andrea Mitchell expressing surprise that Maduro is still holding on.

Sanders responds, “Not only hanging on, but he appears to still control the military. You have to understand in Venezuela, gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power.”

Sanders adds, “So as long as Nicolás Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.”

U.S. Founding Father James Madison noted that one of America’s strengths was the fact that the people at large were armed. He used The Federalist No. 46 to describe “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.”

He went on to explain that the people could band together to check a government that had exceeded its powers and become tyrannical. The people would do this by coming together in “militias,” with officers being “appointed” by local, “subordinate governments” to which the people were attached. Their banding together would be meaningful because the people were armed.

Without guns, the people could still band together, but their options would be limited to throwing stones, sticks, soda bottles, or whatever else they could get their hands around. In the meantime, the soldiers of the tyranny would have guns with which to overpower them, as seen in Venezuela.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/msnbc-venezuela-coverage-shows-why-u-s-founders-wanted-armed-citizenry/

Notable: Live from 10am tommorrow: Livestream link to Barr testifying

Popcorn ready!

WEDNESDAY: Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Senate Judiciary Cmte – LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN3

https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/william-barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee

Notable: [Sally Yates]

[Sally Yates]

disgraced former DOJ DAG.

But Yates’ own words might come back to haunt her, and soon.

An April 19 article in the New York Times, which now is backpedaling on the legimitacy of the Steele dossier in advance of the Horowitz report, speculated that the dossier was part of a Russian propaganda campaign targeting the Trump team.

“There has been much chatter among intelligence experts that Steele’s Russian informants could have been pressured to feed him disinformation,” the Times reported. Further, at the time Steele was working for Fusion GPS on Russian-sourced dirt against Trump, he also was lobbying on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin.

So if Yates signed a court document that heavily relied on shady sources and a lobbyist (Steele) for a Putin-connected billionaire, who would be guilty of relying on help from a foreign adversary for political purposes? Not Donald Trump.

The imperious Yates and her accomplices might have a chance to answer that question—and others—in front of Congress in the very near future.

In response to her “Meet the Press” interview, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) tweeted that Yates’ actions “will certainly be part of forthcoming Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearings on FBI/DOJ during Obama years in which she served as Deputy AG under Loretta Lynch.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/real-bombshells-are-about-hit-their-targets

https://twitter.com/Gettingtrump/status/1123394206561710080

Notable: WaPo: Why Trump Shouldn't Designate MB as a terrorist organisation

Of course WaPo would not want their comrades Muslim Brotherhood to be declared a terrorist organization.

The WaPo is painfully naive and childish in their views of how the MB operates.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1123390855149182976

Notable: Comey was in Charlotte last month for lecture at Queens University

Repost of FUCK!

Comey was just in Charlotte last month to give a lecture at Queens University. Add it to the list…

https://calendar.queens.edu/event/james-comey-learning-society

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/us/university-of-north-carolina-charlotte-shooting/index.html

Notable: More digs on the Epstein Ranch in New Mexico

Repost from late last bread. Not sure if interdasting or old info

>>6374595 (pb)

Some Dig on the Epstein Ranch in New Mexico

The Cessna Aircrafy I thought were Fuckery for Egress but on reflection I think the Satellite or Aerial Imagery has captured two separate photos of the same flying Cessna and this is an artifact of stiching photos together

MOAR DIG ON EPSTEIN'S NEW MEXICO ZORRO RANCH AND DETAILED FUCKERY

Notable: AOC digs graphics

>>6376524

digs

Notable: Great Awakening Cover Anon is alive with new OC. Welcome back anon. o7

I posted this earlier this morning.

This is for the night shift.

No I'm not dead…I just quit working.

For those few who wanted me to continue:

#63 (new)

o7 BO, BV's, Bakers and Patriots.

Notable: “Mass sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine

“Mass sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine

According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan government.

The Kenyan government denies there is anything wrong with the vaccine, and says it is perfectly safe.

The Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, however, saw evidence to the contrary, and had six different samples of the tetanus vaccine from various locations around Kenya sent to an independent laboratory in South Africa for testing.

The results confirmed their worst fears: all six samples tested positive for the HCG antigen. The HCG antigen is used in anti-fertility vaccines, but was found present in tetanus vaccines targeted to young girls and women of childbearing age. Dr. Ngare, spokesman for the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, stated in a bulletin released November 4:

“This proved right our worst fears; that this WHO campaign is not about eradicating neonatal tetanus but a well-coordinated forceful population control mass sterilization exercise using a proven fertility regulating vaccine. This evidence was presented to the Ministry of Health before the third round of immunization but was ignored.” (Source.)

Dr. Ngare brought up several points about the mass tetanus vaccination program in Kenya that caused the Catholic doctors to become suspicious:

Dr. Ngare told LifeSiteNews that several things alerted doctors in the Church’s far-flung medical system of 54 hospitals, 83 health centres, and 17 medical and nursing schools to the possibility the anti-tetanus campaign was secretly an anti-fertility campaign.

Why, they ask does it involve an unprecedented five shots (or “jabs” as they are known, in Kenya) over more than two years and why is it applied only to women of childbearing years, and why is it being conducted without the usual fanfare of government publicity?

“Usually we give a series three shots over two to three years, we give it anyone who comes into the clinic with an open wound, men, women or children.” said Dr. Ngare.

But it is the five vaccination regime that is most alarming. “The only time tetanus vaccine has been given in five doses is when it is used as a carrier in fertility regulating vaccines laced with the pregnancy hormone, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) developed by WHO in 1992.” (Source.)

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/04/30/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine-2/

Notable: Connections betweet POTUS' tweet and Charlotte shooting

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Something HUGE is coming.

All of the FF's are just TOO Coincidental…

Notable: , >>6376174, >>6376185, >>6376179 Epstein digs

Epstein information part 1

Notable: Venzuela Updates

translated

GNB entered dispersed to the demonstration in Maiquetía Edo Vargas, more than 100 people entered the Alfa Clinic to take shelter and the GNB entered the clinic shooting and injuring several demonstrators inside the facilities of the Clinic, there are 5 injured

Notable: Just a taste of what will happen on Thursday…

Just a taste of what will happen on Thursday…

Notable: , >>6376061, >>6376198 Mueller: Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

>>6375994

WaPo reporting same.

Notable: Apple Surges On Blockbuster Guidance Despite Tumbling iPhone Sales

Apple Surges On Blockbuster Guidance Despite Tumbling iPhone Sales, China Revenues

First, two quarters ago, Apple shocked investors when it said it would no longer disclose the number of iPhone it was selling - a clear signal that the selling was slowing dramatically. Shocked investors sold off the stocks… then BTFD with gusto sending AAPL sharply higher. A few months later, on January 3 2019, Apple once again shocked the market when it slashed its revenue guidance by8% for only the first time since this century (naturally, it blamed China). As AAPL stock tumbled, it reveberated across all capital markets, and even prompted a flash crash cascade in most yen and pound pairs. However, just like a quarter earlier, Apple's "shock" was quickly overcome, and the after hours plunge actually marked the max pain for longs, and as the chart below shows, AAPL has soared 46%. And to think all it had to do was slash revenue guidance.

So with enough action to make an algos' silicon head spin, everyone was asking just what disaster Apple would announce today to send its stock back to all time high?

Well, the stock is certainly spiking after hours, but this time there was no disaster, or even disappointment; in fact, the company just reported Q2 numbers that beat across the board, while the company guided above the consensus range for Q3, and also announced a new $75 billion stock repurchase authorization.

Here are the details:

Q2 Revenue of $58.0BN, down from $61.1BN a year ago, but above the $57.49BN expected. ==This was another total annual revenue decline for Apple.==

Q2 EPS of $2.46, down from $2.73 a year

ago, but also above the $2.37 expected

Q2 iPhone Revenue of $31.05BN, Exp.

$30.50BN, down 17% Y/Y from $37.6BN

Q2 China revenue $10.22BN, down 22%

from $13.0BN Y/Y

Q2 Service Revenue $11.45BN, up 16%

from $9.850BN

Q2 Gross margin $21.82BN

cap#2

The company also announced that it is boosting its dividend to 77c/share from 73c/share. In short, ok numbers, but nothing breath-taking, especially when one considers the company's guidance cut last quarter.

(in other words we are going to increase the amount of money, in divdends, we pay to retail and institutional shareholder's so they do not sell our stock-bribing them)

But what the market was far more impressed by was the company's Q3 guidance, where it now sees revenue between $52.5 and $54.5BN, solidly above the consensus estimate of $52.22BN, on gross margin of 37-38%, in line with the 38% expectation.

(this is like saying that of course I have money…I still have checks)

Another potentially troubling development: while Service revenue grew to a new record high of $11.45BN, up from $10.9BN in Q1, this was only a 16% increase Y/Y in service revenue, a clear secular decline in service revenue growth. Which begs the question: is Apple, the "service company" also peaking soon?

To summarize: iPhone sales tumbled 17% but this was offset somewhat by the surge in service sales. How long this trade off will continue is the $1 trillion question.

Also notable: another category that saw a decrease was the Mac, coming in at $5.5 billion. That's down from $5.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. The good news is the iPad, once heralded as the Mac's replacement, is up.

So far this year, Apple has updated one Mac, the iMac desktop, but that's a low volume seller.

To offset the ongoing China weakness and potential service revenue growth concerns, and to make buying the stock after hours easier, Apple went back to doing what it has done best under Tim Cook: not innovate of course, but buyback its stock: in Q2 the company announced an additional $75 billion in share repurchases.

Breaking down the numbers in detail, it is perhaps not a surprise that China revenues crashed 22%. even as Europe and Rest of Asia were also disappointing; only Japan and the Americas posted a modest improvement.

An interesting observation: AAPL's net cash dropped again, and is now down to just $113BN, the lowest since 2012.

cap#3

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/aapl-surges-blockbuster-guidance-despite-tumbling-iphone-china-revenues

Notable: Stacey Abrams announces she won't run for Senate

https://www.theepochtimes.com/stacey-abrams-announces-she-wont-run-for-senate-in-2020_2899684.html?fbclid=IwAR2hQUigIgbUcipgTjaDWJ3H-HTCYQGPB05wNBtSDOdH6pf0ErA2go65Dbo

STACEY ABRAMS OUT! OUT! OUT!!!=

Notable: Trump May Designate Muslim Brotherhood A Terrorist Group

Trump May Designate Muslim Brotherhood A Terrorist Group

The designation would bring the weight of American sanctions on the influential Islamist political movement which counts millions of members in its ranks, as well as those who interact with or support the organization (such as Turkey's President Erdogan).

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged the push to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists, saying "The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern, and this designation is working its way through the internal process."

If you recall from 2013, el-Sisi is a former Egyptian general who helped lead a coup to overthrow Mohamed Morsi - Egypt's first democratically elected president and a former leader within the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi and other senior figures from the then-ruling Muslim Brotherhood was sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection with the killings of protesters during 2012 demonstrations.

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928, and amassed a secret armed wing to fight against British colonial rule. It grew to 200,000 members by 1936, and over 2 million by 1948. After the Egyptian government arrested 32 leaders of the Brotherhood's "secret apparatus" in 1948, banning the organization - its ranks fell to around 500,000 members or sympathizers across 2,000 branches.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/trump-wants-designate-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-group

Notable: , >>6375901, >>6375994 Mueller: Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

Wapo is continuing the fukkery. The day before Barr goes in front of a bunch of assholes.

The important part everyone is ignoring.

In that call, Mueller said he was concerned that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work, according to Justice Department officials.

When Barr pressed him whether he thought Barr’s letter was inaccurate, Mueller said he did not, but felt that the media coverage of the letter was misinterpreting the investigation, officials said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-complained-that-barrs-letter-did-not-capture-context-of-trump-probe/2019/04/30/d3c8fdb6-6b7b-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html

Notable: , >>6375962 Michelle & Hussein reveal their slate of Netflix shows

OBAMA'S BOUGHT BY NETFLIX

2008: $14,885 for senate

2012: $28,981 for President

2016: Netflix supports HRC with $93,531

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/30/barack-and-michelle-obama-reveal-their-slate-of-netflix-shows/

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000036161&type=P&state=&sort=A&cycle=2008

Notable: , >>6375797 Charlotte shooting updates

https://breaking911.com/breaking-multiple-people-shot-on-campus-of-univ-of-north-carolina-at-charlotte/

CHARLOTTE, NC — Multiple people were wounded in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Tuesday afternoon.

According to local media, at least three people were shot near Kennedy Hall at UNCC — more were injured.

A suspected shooter, 22-year-old Trystan Terrell, was later taken into custody.

Notable: Gunfight breaks in Venezuela between police officers and pro-Maduro group.

https://twitter.com/giovannicavett/status/1123332204279545856

Gunfight breaks out at Venezuela’s Transport Ministry office between police officers and pro-Maduro group.

Notable: U.S. attorney general recuses self from T-Mobile, Sprint merger probe

U.S. attorney general recuses self from T-Mobile, Sprint merger probe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr has recused himself from the Justice Department’s deliberations on whether to allow T-Mobile to proceed with its $26 billion acquisition of Sprint, according to a source familiar with the decision.

The department’s Antitrust Division, headed by Makan Delrahim, is reviewing the deal to determine if it will lead to higher prices for consumers or to slower innovation, as critics allege. The Federal Communications Commission also must approve the transaction for it to go forward.

The recusal was first reported by the New York Post.

In a filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in December, Barr acknowledged owning a T-Mobile bond valued at $15,001 to $50,000 and two other T-Mobile bonds and a Sprint bond valued at less than $1,001. Those are to be sold within 90 days of his confirmation, which occurred on Feb. 14.

Barr had also recused himself from considering AT&T’s plan to buy Time Warner, which the government opposed, because of his involvement with those companies. That deal has closed.

T-Mobile announced on Monday that the companies were extending a deadline to complete their deal to July 29. The two are among just four national wireless carriers, trailing Verizon Communications and AT&T.

Regulators are expected to make a decision on the deal in early June. They will be weighing a potential loss of competition, and subsequently higher prices for consumers, against the prospect of a more powerful No. 3 wireless carrier which can work to build a faster, better 5G next generation wireless network.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile-us/u-s-attorney-general-recuses-self-from-t-mobile-sprint-merger-probe-idUSKCN1S62EF

you know what is being set-up here

Notable: @Breaking911 UNCC SHOOTING: - At Least 5 Shot

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1123360405806563328

UNCC SHOOTING:

- At Least 5 Shot

- 2 Dead

- More Wounded

- Male Suspect In Custody

Notable: Opioid-dealing doctor with connections to Haiti, Mexico and Miami-Dade now a fugitive

Opioid-dealing doctor with connections to Haiti, Mexico and Miami-Dade now a fugitive

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article229588434.html

Notable: Sarah Sanders: America stands with the Venezuelan people against socialism and tyranny

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1123359569072349186

America stands with the Venezuelan people against socialism and tyranny

Notable: , >>6375308 , >>6375606 Planefag updates (Southwest Activity & more)

Six B52's currently airborne over SW

Notable: , >>6375619 New DJT Tweets!

DJT Tweet 0 Delta

Notable: MIT Research Scientist Predicts Half of All Children Will Have Autism by 2025

MIT Research Scientist Predicts Half of All Children Will Have Autism by 2025

Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT

Why? Evidence points to glyphosate toxicity from the overuse of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on our food.

For over three decades, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, has researched biology and technology, over the years publishing over 170 scholarly peer-reviewed articles. In recent years she has concentrated on the relationship between nutrition and health, tackling such topics as Alzheimer’s, autism, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.

At a conference last Thursday, in a special panel discussion about GMOs, she took the audience by surprise when she declared, “At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.” She noted that the side effects of autism closely mimic those of glyphosate toxicity, and presented data showing a remarkably consistent correlation between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO crop seeds) with rising rates of autism. Children with autism have biomarkers indicative of excessive glyphosate, including zinc and iron deficiency, low serum sulfate, seizures, and mitochondrial disorder.

A fellow panelist reported that after Dr. Seneff’s presentation, “All of the 70 or so people in attendance were squirming, likely because they now had serious misgivings about serving their kids, or themselves, anything with corn or soy, which are nearly all genetically modified and thus tainted with Roundup and its glyphosate.”

Dr. Seneff noted the ubiquity of glyphosate’s use. Because it is used on corn and soy, all soft drinks and candies sweetened with corn syrup and all chips and cereals that contain soy fillers have small amounts of glyphosate in them, as do our beef and poultry since cattle and chicken are fed GMO corn or soy. Wheat is often sprayed with Roundup just prior to being harvested, which means that all non-organic bread and wheat products would also be sources of glyphosate toxicity. The amount of glyphosate in each product may not be large, but the cumulative effect (especially with as much processed food as Americans eat) could be devastating. A recent study shows that pregnant women living near farms where pesticides are applied have a 60% increased risk of children having an autism spectrum disorder.

Other toxic substances may also be autism-inducing. You may recall our story on the CDC whistleblower who revealed the government’s deliberate concealment of the link between the MMR vaccine (for measles, mumps, and rubella) and a sharply increased risk of autism, particularly in African American boys. Other studies now show a link between children’s exposure to pesticides and autism. Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit phthalate chemicals, are more likely to have autism. Children whose mothers smoked were also twice as likely to have autism. Research now acknowledges that environmental contaminants such as PCBs, PBDEs, and mercury can alter brain neuron functioning even before a child is born.

https://anh-usa.org/half-of-all-children-will-be-autistic-by-2025-warns-senior-research-scientist-at-mit/

Notable: DJT changes his twatter background

Hey anons, was workfaggin’ all day and getting caught up. Didn’t see any mention of DJT changing his twatter background image in the notables?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Notable: Israel continues whining about free speech. Wants to criminalize anti-semitism.

Israeli Scheme to Shut Down Anti-Zionist Dissent Worldwide Exposed

The only way to stop antisemitism is to criminalize it, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told reporters in New York on Monday.

“The time for talking and having a conversation is over,” Danon said. “What Israel and the Jewish community around the world demand is action – and now.”

Danon, speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations Security Council meeting, said that those who engage in antisemitism “must be punished. Whether it is here at the UN [or by] political leaders, editors, policy pundits or college professors, it does not matter.

“Antisemitism should have no place in our society,” he continued. “Until it becomes criminal, this bigotry will persist; it will fester. It is only a matter of time until it erupts again in violence and bloodshed.”

Danon spoke just two days after a shooter, believed to be a white supremacist, killed one Jewish worshiper and wounded three others at the Chabad synagogue in Poway California. That same weekend, The New York Times published a cartoon widely held to be classically antisemitic. The paper has since apologized. Danon linked the two events with a shooting that occurred at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in October, in which 11 worshipers were killed.

“From the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh to the Chabad synagogue in Poway California, antisemitism is no longer a fringe bigotry in the US,” Danon said. “Then, as now, all the right people are saying all the right things. They express their sympathies and call for an end to this violence and bigotry.

“It seems that we have learned nothing from the Pittsburgh attack, and we are likely to continue to do nothing following the attack in San Diego,” Danon continued.

He added that since October, members of Congress have openly exposed themselves as antisemites, and that the NYT cartoon “could have been taken from the pages of Der Stürmer, the Nazi propaganda paper.

“And yet, these actions have gone unpunished,” Danon said. “I have not seen the NYT [hold] anyone accountable for this horrible cartoon. When you have pictures, cartoons, words [and] demonstrations, it leads to violence and shootings.”

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Israeli-envoy-calls-for-criminalizing-antisemitism-after-NYT-cartoon-588234

Notable: Venezuela’s Maduro was preparing to flee to Cuba but was stopped by Russia, Pompeo says

Venezuela’s Maduro was preparing to flee to Cuba but was stopped by Russia, Pompeo says

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article229874589.html

Notable: Waka Flocka set to perform at UNCC this evening.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1123352946626850816

Notable: Navy Deploys two Southbound aircraft carriers amid Venezuelan crisis.

Navy Deploys two aircraft

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1123347696885039105

Notable: Minneapolis Somali police officer Mohamed Noor, charged with killing Justine Damond, found guilty of 3rd degree murder, 2nd degree manslaughter.

Minneapolis Fast-tracked somali diversity-hire police officer Mohammed Noor, charged with killing Justine Damond, found guilty of 3rd degree murder, 2nd degree manslaughter

>inb4 source

tv live breaking news, phagget

Notable: Bolton tells Cuba "The World is Watching."

Bolton tells Cuba

"The World is Watching"

Notable: 12 arrested in Florida child pornography operation.

12 arrested in Florida child pornography operation

“Operation Guardians of Innocence III”

From February to April 2019, Polk County Sheriff’s Computer Crimes detectives served search warrants and made 12 arrests during “Operation Guardians of Innocence III” which focused on identifying and arresting those involved in the possession, promotion, and distribution of child pornography. A total of 640 felonies were filed against the suspects, with more charges pending.

Thank you Q+

Notable: B. Chad Bungard, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board for the term of seven years.

Nomination Sent to the Senate

Issued on: April 30, 2019

B. Chad Bungard, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board for the term of seven years expiring March 1, 2025, vice Mark A. Robbins, term expired.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/nomination-sent-senate/

Notable: Planefag: "USAF VIP G5 from NYC descending towards Sacto, Ca"

USAF VIP G5 from NYC descending towards Sacto, Ca

>>6372833 (pb)

Notable: Foreign leaders express gratitude to Japan emperor as he abdicates.

Foreign leaders express gratitude to Japan emperor as he abdicates

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190501/p2g/00m/0na/008000c

Notable: CBP apprehends 111 illegals in Arizona.

https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1123226561581203457

Notable: Latest on [Mayor Pugh] | WJZ

Latest on [Mayor Pugh] | WJZ

Notable: >>6374357, >>6374434, >>6374496, >>6374564, >>6374595, >>6374647, >>6374531 Second Epstein property in NM?

Epstein Island is not the only site. A second Epstein property exists in Stanley, NM. Santa Fe county.

We do not have close-ups of it AFAIK, and that kind of op would require more than just an anon with a drone.

What we know is that this is a sex slave temple just like his island.

https://www.abqjournal.com/521794/sex-slave-suit-nm-was-a-location-used.html

Lower right circle appears to be a pit or courtyard. Blue roof.

Notable: Happeninganon image. (graphic)

under budget and ahead of schedule

April 2019 habbenings

Notable: ES to step down from CEO of Google.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-to-step-down-from-board/ar-AAAKAn4?ocid=spartandhp

Notable: DJT Tweet: "If Cuban Troops and Militia do not immediately CEASE military and other operations for the purpose of causing death and destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela…"

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123333506346749952

Notable: 83-year-old 'Oxy Doc' gets 20 years in prison.

83-year-old 'Oxy Doc' gets 20 years in prison

https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1123330444425093120?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Notable: The real ‘bombshells’ are about to hit their targets.

The Real ‘Bombshells’ Are About to Hit Their Targets

https://amgreatness.com/2019/04/29/the-real-bombshells-are-about-to-hit-their-targets/

Notable: Trump slams European nations for not taking back ISIS fighters.

Trump slams European nations for not taking back ISIS fighters

https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/trump-slams-european-nations-for-not-taking-back-isis-fighters/

Notable: AirForce re-Tweet @ 15:55.

US AIRFORCE RETWEET

https://twitter.com/USAFCENT/status/1123314845334614016?s=19

Notable: Former Vice President Dick Cheney selling waterfront estate in Maryland.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney Selling Waterfront Estate in Maryland

https://m.chron.com/realestate/article/Former-Vice-President-Dick-Cheney-Selling-13806596.php?cmpid=hpctp

Notable: Pair of Tennessee students charged with murder-suicide plot.

Pair of Tennessee students charged with murder-suicide plot

https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/pair-of-tennessee-students-charged-with-murder-suicide-plot/

Notable: US extradition request for Julian Assange to be heard this week.

US extradition request for Julian Assange to be heard this week

https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/us-extradition-request-for-julian-assange-to-be-heard-this-week/

Notable: Tech stocks continue to take a hit.

S&P Shrugs Off Googlepocalypse As China 'Green Shoots' Die

(China will print this week for sure-they have zero choice)

Everyone has thumbs up ass's waiting for fed to NOT do anything. Anything can habben but the COMEX bet's say no changes.

Volume's are the usual lower than average except in individual equity's like GOOG/GOOGL

Despite weak China PMI overnight, China stocks trod water

US Stocks lumped into the EU close (after Mulvaney spooked stocks with China trade deal headlines) and then ripped back, extending gains after Trump raised the idea of The Fed slashing rates and QE… S&P was glued to unchanged all afternoon.

GOOGL spooked Nasdaq futures (as did weak China PMI and Mulvaney).

(the system has squeezed everything it can out of tech-they are focusing on the SP500 and DOW component's as well as other sub index's)

With investors having hugged their margin clerks for months, hoping to chase outsized returns during what many have dubbed a melt up, today they are hugging the toilet bowel instead as the year’s hottest trade in stocks is suffering a huge market-value loss over the previously noted Google ad revenue meltdown.

(would love to know what it cost's them but they refuse to break that out)

Led by an earnings-driven sell-off at Alphabet, FAANGs are on track to lose more than $100 billion in combined capitalization, and are set to suffer their second-biggest market cap drop of this year.

The culprit of course was Alphabet, which dropped 8.3% after its its ad revenue growth posted a sharp slowdown, resulting in a $68.3 billion market cap loss. The rest of the drop was due to Apple, whose 2.1% drop resulted in nearly $20 billion wiped out, and came just ahead of Apple’s own results, due after the market closes. When the FAANGs last saw $100 billion erased from their valuations, it was after Apple cut its outlook in January, which wiped almost $70 billion from the iPhone maker’s valuation.

10Y Yield roundtripped 5bps intraday, fading back to 2.50% by the close.

Commodities all rose on the day, as the dollar dipped, led by WTI.

(this is largely because of the dollar and not a reaction to the underlying commodity(s)-system has a doallar shortage now and this is what is driving it up)

Finally, the S&P 500 is up 17.4% in 2019, making it the fourth best start to a year in history.

However, that may be a bearish signal. Because historically when the January-April return exceeds 15%, the performance for the rest of the year is paltry at best and, at times, a disaster.

Tell that to the market maker's

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/sp-shrugs-googlepocalypse-china-green-shoots-die

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC?p=^IXIC

Notable: 25 Christians killed in suspected Boko Haram attack on Nigerian village.

25 people killed in suspected Boko Haram attack on Nigerian village

https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/25-people-killed-in-suspected-boko-haram-attack-on-nigerian-village/

Notable: Reported bomb threat in Colorado.

Officials are investigating and an elementary school has been evacuated after a reported bomb threat in Pueblo County, Colorado.

North Mesa Elementary School was evacuated following a robotic call was made threatening the school. All students have been evacuated and transported to a nearby middle school.

Officials will announce when parents will be able to pick up their children. It is unclear if the threat is credible at this time.

https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/04/30/breaking-school-evacuated-in-pueblo-county-colorado/

Notable: Gates Foundation quietly plans to control nutritional supplements for the ‘good of humanity’.

Gates Foundation quietly plans to control nutritional supplements for the ‘good of humanity’

For the majority of Americans, nutritional supplements are a mainstay of daily health and wellness routines. In fact, according to the 2017 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, 76 percent of American adults – over 170 million people – rely on dietary supplements for increased energy, immune health, bone health and overall wellness. Surely, the Gates Foundation – run by Bill and Melinda Gates – wouldn’t think of preventing us from obtaining these supplements … right?

Keep in mind, vitamins and minerals top the list, comprising a whopping 98 percent of all nutritional supplements consumed.

Yet – in spite of overwhelming public support for nutritional supplements – the multi-billion-dollar Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is sponsoring a plan that would ultimately threaten access to these vital nutrients at sufficient quantities needed for a therapeutic effect.

“Global harmonization” of nutrients will limit the potency of nutritional supplements

Many natural health experts – including those at the Dr. Rath Health Foundation – are concerned by a 2018 report that was released following a series of high-level meetings of international health authorities.

The report, published by National Academies Press and titled “Harmonization of Approaches to Nutrient Reference Values,” reveals a plan to make setting “safe upper limit levels” for vitamins and minerals a top priority.

But many natural health advocates fear that the recommendations are simply a way to set the stage for the global “harmonization” (uniformity) of nutrient reference values. This, in turn, could lead to regulatory bans on nutritional supplements.

Upper nutrient levels refer to the highest amount of a nutrient that is likely to pose no risk of adverse effects for almost all individuals in the general population.

While the report purported to focus on establishing nutrient reference values for young children and women of reproductive age, critics say the real intention is to generate a uniform approach.

According to the report, NRVs should only be set by a global body, such as the WHO or FAO – a fact which raises suspicion among proponents of natural health therapies.

The meetings, held at the behest of the Gates Foundation, were attended by representatives from such “heavy hitters” as the World Health Organization; the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and other powerful entities and international stakeholders.

https://www.naturalhealth365.com/gates-foundation-micronutrients-2941.html

Notable: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the ‘future is private’.

FB / Mark Zuckerberg Rumblings

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the ‘future is private’

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18524188/facebook-f8-keynote-mark-zuckerberg-privacy-

future-2019

4 very uncomfortable Mark Zuckerberg moments from Facebook's developer conference

https://theweek.com/speedreads/838548/4-uncomfortable-mark-zuckerberg-moments-from-facebooks-developer-conference

Notable: POTUS asks for interest rate cuts.

Trump jawbones Fed on rates, wishing for rocket-like economy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his latest salvo at the Federal Reserve, saying the U.S. economy could go “up like a rocket” if the central bank were to cut interest rates.

“We have the potential to go … up like a rocket if we did some lowering of rates, like one point, and some quantitative easing,” he said in a pair of tweets.

“Yes, we are doing very well at 3.2% GDP (gross domestic product), but with our wonderfully low inflation, we could be setting major records &, at the same time, make our National Debt start to look small!,” he said, referring to the economy’s first-quarter growth rate.

The Fed, which opened a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday, has been one of Trump’s favorite punching bags. It was not the first time he has called on it to cut interest rates and pursue a new round of QE, in which the central bank buys bonds to drive borrowing costs lower.

At the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday, the Fed is expected to announce it is keeping the benchmark federal funds target rate unchanged in a range of 2.25% to 2.50% in keeping with a pledge to be “patient” on rate policy going forward. Trump has been irate that the Fed has raised interest rates repeatedly since he became president, most recently at the bank’s meeting in December.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-trump/trump-jawbones-fed-on-rates-wishing-for-rocket-like-economy-idUSKCN1S62A5?il=0

https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-fomc.html/

No raise or lower according to the "bet's"

Notable: Jon Healey: Care about balance of power? Root for Trump’s legal team in financial records fight.

Jon Healey: Care about balance of power? Root for Trump’s legal team in financial records fight

By JON HEALEY | April 26, 2019 at 9:47 am

President Donald Trump threw his first counterpunch Monday to the flurry of subpoenas that House Democrats issued in recent weeks, filing a federal lawsuit to block the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s demand for eight years of financial records from Trump’s businesses.

The complaint argues that the committee’s subpoena is an illegal power grab that usurps authority from the Justice Department. This might strike you as richly ironic, if you happen to be alarmed by the president’s expansive view of executive power and his administration’s tendency to act like a law unto itself.

But if you worry about preserving the balance of powers in government and constitutional limits on elected officials, you should probably be rooting for Trump’s legal team on this one. Even though Trump’s complaint reads more like a campaign ad than a legal document, it is founded on an important principle: Congress’ subpoena power exists to support legitimate legislative functions, not prosecutorial fishing expeditions.

Here’s where Trump critics leap out of their seats and howl that the public has a right to know if the president of the United States is a tax cheat who defrauded lenders and remains financially tied to unsavory elements. And they have a point, to a degree. An impeachment investigation would certainly justify the House demanding documents relevant to the truth or falsity of allegations that the president was violating tax law, bending bank rules or putting his own financial interests ahead of the country’s.

But that’s not what Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) is doing. The records he subpoenaed from Trump’s accountants at Mazars USA are mainly from the years before Trump became president. And the trail he’s following appears to be the one left by Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who accused Trump of exaggerating the value of some of his properties to help obtain bank loans.

An April 12 memorandum by Cummings outlined the rationale for the subpoena. According to the complaint, the memorandum cited Cohen’s testimony and said the committee needed to find out “whether the president has been accurate in his financial reporting.”

If the issue is whether Trump’s reported his finances accurately as president, why demand any records from the Trump companies prior to 2017? You could even argue that none of candidate Trump’s commercial ventures are relevant to such an inquiry, given that President-elect Trump supposedly removed himself from the operation of those businesses.

The Oversight and Reform Committee has a broad ambit that allows it to scrutinize seemingly everything done by the executive branch. But as Trump’s lawsuit observes, the committee is not the Justice Department.

“But the power to investigate, broad as it may be, is also subject to recognized limitations,” the Supreme Court held in 1955 in Quinn vs. United States. “It cannot be used to inquire into private affairs unrelated to a valid legislative purpose. Nor does it extend to an area in which Congress is forbidden to legislate. Similarly, the power to investigate must not be confused with any of the powers of law enforcement; those powers are assigned under our Constitution to the Executive and the Judiciary.”

Now, the House Ways and Means Committee may easily find a valid legislative purpose for looking at Trump’s tax returns — for example, to check the effectiveness of IRS enforcement. And the House Judiciary Committee, as the panel responsible for conducting impeachment hearings on federal officials, obviously needs to be able to subpoena records related to suspected “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

And as the Supreme Court noted in Eastland vs. United States Servicemen’s Fund, the only relevant question for courts when examining a congressional subpoena is whether it falls within the “sphere of legitimate legislative activity” — even if there’s some blatant politics involved. Chief Justice Warren Burger put it this way: “Our cases make clear that, in determining the legitimacy of a congressional act, we do not look to the motives alleged to have prompted it.”

Nevertheless, the subpoena dragnet by Democrats does seem to reach beyond the borders of executive-branch oversight, particularly the inquiries into Trump’s conduct as a real estate and branding mogul before he became president. It’s obvious why Democrats want to shine a spotlight on whatever bad Trump behavior they can find. But it should also be obvious why we don’t want Congress to have unlimited power to do that.

Jon Healey is deputy editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times.

Notable: Archbishop says Christians slaughtered ‘like chickens’ in Nigeria.

Archbishop Says Christians Slaughtered ‘Like Chickens’ in Nigeria

A Nigerian archbishop has decried the slaughter of Christians in his country and the media silence surrounding it, declaring that “Christians are being killed like chickens.”

Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso told LifeSiteNews said that in the Muslim-dominated northwest of the country people live in constant fear, especially in the state of Kaduna where he resides.

“It is one of the states where everybody walks around afraid. There are kidnappers and bandits and they are killing people. Villages are being burned down,” Archbishop Ndagoso said in an article published Monday.

“In other parts of the country if something happens, the president shows up. But here people are being killed and nothing is being done about it,” he said.

Ndagoso says there is “a systemic persecution of Christians in these states” but the nation’s leaders “do not have the political will to address the issues, to enforce the provisions of the constitution regarding the equality of religions and the equality of citizens before the law.”

Since last October, the archbishop says, “there have been serious attacks in villages especially in my archdiocese of Kaduna. Hundreds and hundreds of villagers have been killed.”

“This conflict has led to attacks and the burning of so many villages,” he said. “I can tell you that between January and now, more than 10 villages that are mostly Christian have been burned and destroyed. There are thousands and thousands of IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in villages around the area whom we are looking after.”

In theory, Nigeria’s constitution provides freedom of religion and the equality of everyone before the law, Ndagoso notes, and yet “Christians in these northwest states where Muslims command the majority are not taken seriously. Their rights are not respected, because they are only tolerated, not treated as equals.”

The resulting atmosphere is one of fear among the Christian population, the archbishop states.

“Many villages have been burned, many hundreds of people have been killed and yet we do not have any rest,” he said.

“Right now, as I am talking to you,” Ndagoso added, “the rainy season has come and villagers who provide food for us are afraid to go to their farms because they will be kidnapped, because they will be killed.”

“So I do actually fear that if nothing happens between now and the next two months when people are supposed to be planting and they don’t go to their farm, only God knows what will happen to us next year in terms of food security,” he said.

“These are things the international community needs to talk about,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2019/04/30/archbishop-decries-slaughter-of-christians-like-chickens-in-nigeria/

Notable: Lawmaker from Kansas City [DaRon McGee] resigns amid sexual harassment allegations

Lawmaker from Kansas City [DaRon McGee] resigns amid sexual harassment allegations

https://salinapost.com/2019/04/30/lawmaker-from-kansas-city-resigns-amid-sexual-harassment-allegations/

Notable: Award winning cop, clergyman, and teacher arrested in sting trying to have sex with children.

Award Winning Cop, Clergyman, and Teacher Arrested in Sting Trying to Have Sex with Children

A steroid-abusing cop, a teacher, and a clergyman were among more than a dozen child predators arrested in a sting that lasted only 4 days.

Trenton, NJ — Cops in the Trenton, New Jersey area have been in the media for multiple acts of brutality and corruption recently. Now, however, they are making headlines once again — this time, for attempting to have sex with children. It’s not just cops either, members of the clergy and public school system were also arrested.

This month, officers with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force carried out a sting called “Operation Home Alone.” The sting set up fake profiles on multiple social media apps in which officers pretended to be young children. When the predators would seek the children out for sex, instead of meeting a child, they met the undercover cops.

During the sting, which lasted just four days, law enforcement members made 16 arrests.

“The 16 men we arrested allegedly used social media to stalk victims they believed were vulnerable children who could be sexually exploited. Fortunately, their victims were really undercover officers prepared to put them in handcuffs,” said Attorney General Grewal through a statement. “Parents need to know that the profiles of underage girls and boys we posted on social media to catch these offenders could easily have been profiles of their own children, who might also be targeted by predators on chat apps and popular gaming sites. Our message to parents with Operation Home Alone is be on guard. Our message to child predators is law enforcement is working overtime to find you and arrest you.”

One of the suspected child predators is 28-year-old Peter Tuchol Jr., a resident of Waldwick and police officer with the Ridgewood Police Department. Since his arrest last week, Tuchol has been suspended from the force.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-arrested-teacher-child-sting/

Notable: Maria Tweets about the baby snatching illegal immigrants at our border.

Now the are fucking snatching babies from mothers arms.

Just got a call from a source at the border- a man snatched a baby from mother's arms to try & cross border as a family. Authorities figured it out, took baby cleaned & fed her. This "family" rule is creating massive unintended consequences. @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness 6-9am et

Notable: Ivanka Trump to speak at Milken Institute Global Conference

Ivanka Trump to Speak at Milken Institute Global Conference

https://bhcourier.com/2019/04/29/ivanka-trump-to-speak-at-milken-institute-global-conference/

Notable: Marines Tweet: "#SeeSomethingDoSomething"

US MARINES RETWEET

"If you #SeeSomethingDoSomething about it. Keep our #MarineCorps safe & ready for our next fight," says SMMC Green Text OWNIT to 555-888 #MarineToughConversations https://t.co/4qbIlvtRF7

https://twitter.com/MCCS_Forward/status/1122863325128347652?s=19

Notable: >>6372676 Tauscher dig. Call to shovels.

anons, i think there is way more to this than meets the eyes…

most notably, Tauscher: is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

https://www.llnl.gov/news/tauscher-named-lawrence-livermore-and-los-alamos-boards-governors

Norm Pattiz, chairman of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) and Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), on Monday announced that Ellen Tauscher has been named as an independent governor on the LLNS and LANS Boards of Governors.

The LLCs manage Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Department of Energy. The appointments take effect Sept. 17.

Tauscher also has been appointed as a member of the LANS/LLNS Boards' Mission Committee. The mission committee serves in an advisory role to review current and future national security issues and Laboratory initiatives, capabilities and strategic plans to address these issues.

"We are very pleased to welcome Ellen Tauscher to the Boards of Governors of LANS and LLNS," Pattiz said. "Ms. Tauscher has a distinguished record as a seven-term member of Congress with expertise in national security matters, a former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and as an investment banker. She is respected by the national and international arms control communities, by members of Congress and by the business community. She will add greatly to our boards and the national laboratories."

"I am honored to serve on the LLNS and LANS Boards of Governors and use the expertise gained over 35 years serving in Congress, the State Department and the private sector to support the national security mission and critical science initiatives at both laboratories," Tauscher said.

In August 2012, Tauscher joined Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, as strategic adviser and is a member of the firm's Federal Public Policy Group. She also currently serves as vice chair-designate of the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.

Tauscher served as a special envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense with the State Department from February through August 2012 and as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from June 2009 to February 2012. As Under Secretary of State, Tauscher played a lead role in the New START Treaty negotiations with the Russian Federation. Additionally she managed the State Department Bureaus of Arms Control and Verification, International Security and Non-Proliferation, and Political Military Affairs, representing 600 State Department Foreign Service officers and civil servants with expertise in non-proliferation, arms control, export control, foreign arms sales and civil nuclear agreements.

While in Congress, Tauscher represented California's 10th congressional district for 13 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the only member of Congress to have two national security laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories/California, in her district. From January 2007 until her appointment as under secretary, Tauscher chaired the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. She also was a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Tauscher serves on the Invacare Corporation (NYSE:IVC) Board of Directors; The Aerospace Corporation Board of Trustees; eHealth Corporation Board of Directors; and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Foundation Board of Directors. She also is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Before being elected to Congress, Tauscher spent 14 years working on Wall Street. She was one of the first and youngest women to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and later served as an officer of the American Stock Exchange. Tauscher graduated from Seton Hall University and has an honorary doctorate of laws degree from California State University East Bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Security

Notable: Venezuela claims Washington planned coup.

Venezuelan coup attempt ‘directly planned in Washington’ – FM

The Venezuelan foreign minister has accused the US-backed opposition of planning Tuesday’s coup attempt in Washington, and said the government would work to keep the peace.

Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told Reuters by telephone that only around 30 soldiers had supported the coup instigated by opposition leader Juan Guaido. He described the plot as “another chapter” of an American effort to topple the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

While downplaying the scale of the uprising, Arreaza said it did not originate within the military, but that opposition leaders planned the event in Washington.

"It is not a coup attempt from the military. This is directly planned in Washington, in the Pentagon and Department of State, and by [National Security Adviser John] Bolton," Arreaza told Reuters.

"They are leading this coup and giving orders to this man Guaido," he said.

Bolton, a long-time major backer of the Venezuelan opposition, went public on Tuesday with his support for the coup attempt, pledging that “the United States stands with the people of Venezuela” while slamming Maduro’s “usurpation of democracy.”

https://www.rt.com/news/457934-venezuela-coup-attempt-planned-washington/

Notable: Prez Juncker reveals he blocks Eurosceptics from Commission jobs, regardless of elections.

EU Democracy: Prez Juncker Reveals He Blocks Eurosceptics from Commission Jobs, Regardless of Elections

The EU will make sure eurosceptic candidates are blocked from top jobs in Brussels regardless of the results of May’s election, Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has bragged.

In an interview with Polish media at the weekend, Jean-Claude Juncker rejected the idea that the surge at the ballot box for national populist parties predicted next month would slow the progress of the globalist EU integration process.

“In these elections, those who promote foolish nationalism will pay the price for it,” the European Commission president threatened, crowing: “Nobody knows this, but last time I rejected the candidacies of six of the Commissioners presented to me by national governments”.

“Do remember that governments merely propose commissioners. It is the president of the Commission who accepts them and allocates their responsibilities,” the unelected bureaucrat boasted.

Speaking with Rzeczpospolita, Juncker sneered that, whether the nation’s patriotic ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party wins national parliamentary elections in November or whether it is defeated by a coalition of opposition activists backed by most of the Brussels establishment, Poland would not be leaving the EU due to the financial benefits it provides.

“Poles do not want to be cut off from all this,” the Luxembourgian politician confidently declared, before adding contradictorily that people in Western Europe “should not think Poland is only in the bloc for money”.

He claimed Poland’s EU membership is as a result of the Slavic nation-state sharing “common values” with other EU countries, and said that funding from Brussels “is not a gift, but a recognition of the magnitude of the reforms carried out” since it joined the EU

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/30/eu-boss-block-conservative-commission/

Notable: Bolton statement on Venezuela.

https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1123296372822880263

Notable: Names of SNC employees, executives behind thousands of dollars in illegal Liberal Party donations revealed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/snc-lavalin-liberal-donors-list-canada-elections-1.5114537

Names of SNC employees, executives behind thousands of dollars in illegal Liberal Party donations revealed

Notable: Venezuela lines in the sand have been drawn in International support.

Support for Nicolas Maduro's regime comes from Russia, China, Turkey, Mexico and Iran, wheres the EU, United States, Canada, Australia and neighbours Brazil recognise Juan Guaido as leader of Venezuela

Think for yourself anons

Notable: B2 Stealth Bomber.

B2 Stealth Bomber

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8weRKpg_H0tahxLMacwnw/videos

Notable: For the Clockfags.

For the Clockfags

Notable: Notable bun search function in the works!

Quick qanon.news archives update.

I've been working on a search and part of it is ironing out the notables archives I have been gathering.

We're close to rolling out an archive of Baker Notable posts from the past breads. Averaging 17 breads a day for 446 days. Here's a look at what the archives looks like (filtered for only notables) and the Archive page with the Baker Notables for today.

Not sold on the image for the Notables archives, if anybody has something good let me have it!

TYBs for all you do!

Thank you Anons for digging!

Notable: Planefag: UN senegal to Haiti.

UN senegal to haiti . nothing good can come from this .

Notable: Dig on Google's crane collapse.

REGARDING GOOGLE CRANE COLLAPSE:

The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers are the ones who are responsible for the work done there, and in the past they have had conflicts with other unions who believe that iron work falls under their jurisdiciton.

We all know what false flags are. Do you guys think its possible one union might false flag another union?

"The Iron Workers soon found themselves at war with the AFL and, in particular, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The Carpenters claimed that pile-driving work, which was done primarily by Iron Workers in many areas, belonged to them and convinced the Building Trades Department to go along with them. When the Iron Workers refused to relinquish this work the AFL suspended it from membership in 1917. Other unions, such as the Lathers, then claimed that work that had historically been done by iron workers belonged to them instead. Unable to call on the support of other AFL unions in its fights with employers, the Iron Workers relented the following year and ceded pile driving work, with the exception of work related to bridge building, to the Carpenters."

The logos posted here are the Associated General Contractors as well as the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Bridge,_Structural,_Ornamental_and_Reinforcing_Iron_Workers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Brotherhood_of_Carpenters_and_Joiners_of_America

Request NOTABLES for further digs.

Notable: Missouri House passes new redistricting proposal.

Sounds spoopy.

Missouri House passes new redistricting proposal

“The Missouri House has passed a proposal to undo and replace the redistricting process enacted by voters in November.“

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/30/authorities-investigating-4-recent-inmate-deaths-i/

Notable: HRC Tweets re: Tauscher's passing.

been waiting on this

obama next eulogy

he had alot to say

he had alot of nothing to say

we will miss him

Notable: Craft using an inertial mass reduction device.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

Craft using an inertial mass reduction device

Abstract

A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the resonant cavity to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall.

Assigned to DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

Notable: Democrat Kansas governor names new appeals court judge amid lawsuit.

Democrat Kansas governor names new appeals court judge amid lawsuit

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/30/michigan-legislature-oks-delay-in-teacher-evaluati/

Notable: Server maker Super Micro to ditch 'made-in-China' parts on spy fears.

Server maker Super Micro to ditch 'made-in-China' parts on spy fears

Trade war also pushing global data center supply chain to new locations

TAOYUAN, Taiwan/TAIPEI – Super Micro Computer, the server maker at the heart of spy chip allegations last autumn, has told suppliers to move production out of China to address U.S. customers' concerns about cyber espionage risks, according to industry sources familiar with the matter.

California based Super Micro, the world's third-largest server maker by shipments after HP and Dell, has strongly denied allegations made last October that its Chinese made motherboards had been implanted with malignant chips to hack big tech customers such as Apple and Amazon. Independent testing showed no evidence of the claims made by Bloomberg Businessweek, the group has said.

Nevertheless, U.S. customers and especially government-related clients have asked Super Micro not to supply them with motherboards made in China because of security concerns, according to one company executive.

The motherboard is an essential component within a server on which key parts such as central processing units, graphics processors, memory chips,and major integrated circuits are mounted.

Super Micro is not alone in responding to concerns over Chinese made motherboards in data centers and servers. In 2017 roughly 90% of the motherboards used in the 13.9 million servers shipped worldwide were made in China. Last year that had dropped to less than 50% of motherboards used in the global total of 15.2 million, according to Digitimes Research, a tech supply chain specialist.

"There is a major shift out of China happening from the server supply chain," said Betty Shyu, a server analyst at Taipei-based Digitimes. Chinese-made server motherboards had also been hit by the additional tariffs imposed by Washington, she said.

In addition to asking suppliers to shift production, Super Micro is expanding its own in-house manufacturing facilities to mitigate any perceived risk. The company mostly assembles server systems in-house but outsources motherboard production to many suppliers. "We have to be more self-reliant [to build in-house manufacturing] without depending only on those outsourcing partners whose production previously has mostly been in China," the executive said.

On Monday the group broke ground on a 2 billion New Taiwan dollar ($65 million) new factory in the northern Taiwanese city of Taoyuan and it is weighing a further NT$10 billion investment locally, Charles Liang, founder and CEO said this week. It is also expanding in Silicon Valley.

Super Micro's shift comes as the group continues to suffer fallout from the ongoing trade war between Beijing and Washington and from concerns about cyber espionage, even though customers such as Apple and Amazon strongly deny they have seen any evidence of affected hardware.

(of course they don't….no backdoor access then)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/Server-maker-Super-Micro-to-ditch-made-in-China-parts-on-spy-fears

Notable: DHS chief says more funds needed to handle crush of migrants.

DHS chief says more funds needed to handle crush of migrants

“McAleenan said President Donald Trump would also be sending legislative requests for faster deportations and to ask that families be detained for the length of their immigration case. Right now, children cannot be detained longer than about 20 days per a federal court agreement that governs the rights of children in immigration custody.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/30/man-charged-with-reckless-homicide-in-inmates-deat/

Notable: House Republicans eyeing referrals for two or three Fusion GPS connected individuals.

House Republicans plan to submit criminal referrals against Fusion GPS associates, North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows said on Tuesday.

Speaking at an event hosted by The Washington Post, Meadows said that he has “great concerns” with how the Fusion-funded Steele dossier was used in the investigation of President Donald Trump.

Meadows did not identify the targets of the referrals, but Republicans have accused Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson of making false statements during his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in November 2017.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/30/mark-meadows-criminal-referrals-fusion-gps/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=atdailycaller

Notable: BoatTracking from previous bread request.

BoatTracking from previous bread request

Seven Seas Yacht Current location and travel since 29April2019

Notable: Tomorrow Is MAYday.

Tomorrow Is MAYday

Q drop #3170 contains MAYday.

Brad Parscale tweeted that POTUS gave his 547th rally in Green Bay.

If you subtract 547 days from MAYday you get OCT. 31, 2017

ALL of the Q drops from October 31, 2017 have a :oo in the time stamp and line up on the Qclock with May 1st.

Notable: Sri Lanka cracks down on TV used to preach ISIS propaganda.

https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1123275952065089543

Notable: DJT Jr. calls out Instagram for deleting photo with wounded vet.

https://twitter.com/douglasernst/status/1123269698785648640

Notable: Bolton Venezuela Tweet.

https://twitter.com/BreakingIEN/status/1123273572598919169

Notable: Huawei back doors found by Vodafone.

5 Eyes & Huawei

Notable: Former California Congresswoman, UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died: Dianne Feinstein.

Former California Congresswoman, UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died: Dianne Feinstein

http://www.ktvu.com/news/former-california-congresswoman-uc-regent-ellen-tauscher-died-diane-feinstein

Notable: >>6371692 Venezuelan Tweet updates.

@telesurenglish

#InPictures | Venezuelans are gathering outside the Miraflores Palace to show their respect for the Venezuelan Constitution led and in rejection of the attempted coup.

#HandsOffVenezuela

https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1123266066308841472

Where is the people of Venezuela?

HERE

Notable: Google showing signs of trouble.

Google sales growth is slowing, and it sure would be nice to know why

Alphabet’s frustrating lack of disclosures could hurt the company as investors are left to wonder about source of slowdown

Alphabet Inc.’s revenue growth is slowing down, but the lack of details about its business still doesn’t seem to be changing.

The Google parent company GOOG, -8.19% GOOGL, -8.05% reported first-quarter results Monday that showed revenue of $29.5 billion after traffic-acquisition costs, lower than analysts had expected. Overall sales growth for Alphabet slowed to 16.7%, or 18.6% when factoring in TAC, the slowest rate for the online-advertising giant since the fourth quarter of 2015.

For a typical company, an investor could poke through the different segments and find the businesses that have contributed most to the slowdown, then decide if that was scary enough for them to drop the stock. Executives would then be asked specific questions about those segments on a conference call, and respond with more information that would be helpful in making the decision.

Alphabet, though, is not a typical company. It combines all of its advertising revenue — including its massive search business and its large and influential YouTube business — into one completely opaque revenue bucket that dominates its financial performance. It bundles a hardware division, its app store and its Google Cloud enterprise-tech arm, three incredibly disparate businesses, into a single entity that never is separated into its different parts. It bundles everything else into “Other Bets,” a collection of young, money-losing businesses.

Forthcoming executives aren’t Alphabet’s style either. During the company’s conference call with analysts Monday, currency fluctuations and the timing of ad-product changes that were never described were the excuses executives attempted to make. There were a few references to Alphabet’s very strong fourth quarter, where the “tough compare” language starting to emerge. The company sparingly referenced issues with its Pixel smartphone, due to tough competition in the premium smartphone market, but few details emerged there as well.

“Hardware results reflect lower year-on-year sales of Pixel reflecting in part heavy promotional activity industrywide given some of the recent pressures in the premium smartphone market,” Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in what passes as disclosure in a Google earnings call.

Other revenue for Google was $5 billion, up 25% year over year, fueled by Google Cloud and the Google Play Store and “partially offset by hardware,” she noted. But it isn’t clear how much each of those businesses contributed to the overall $5 billion. One analyst asked when investors might look for Alphabet to start breaking out its Cloud business revenue or even its growth rate.

Executives said they would share more information at “an appropriate time.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/guid/0F7ED2CA-6ACA-11E9-AF81-D3EEB031C30C

This is a much different angle then in year's past. Usually financial media stay FAR away from having critical remarks as they know where the bread is buttered.

Notable: The Air Force 45th Space Wing is gearing up for three high-profile space launches at Cape Canaveral over the coming months.

The Air Force 45th Space Wing is gearing up for three high-profile space launches at Cape Canaveral over the coming months. If all goes as planned, the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) and the Space Test Program-2 missions will fly in June, and the second vehicle of the Global Positioning System-3 constellation in July…

https://spacenews.com/cape-canaveral-preparing-for-key-military-launches/

Notable: POTUS moves to label Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1123232590020980736

Notable: RI town declares itself a 2nd amendment sanctuary city. Dem. governor not happy.

Burrillville, RI declares itself a "Second Amendment Sanctuary". Democrat Governor calls the move "inappropriate".

As Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo neuters RI's Second Amendment rights, she calls the town's move "inappropriate" as she and her fellow DemocRATS turn RI into a sanctuary state for illegals.

BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo calls a resolution passed by a town in response to her gun control proposals inappropriate.

Burrillville declared itself a "Second Amendment sanctuary" last week and passed a resolution stating it supports the police department's right to exercise sound discretion when enforcing Second Amendment-related laws.

Raimondo told WPRO-AM on Monday if new gun laws pass, she expects Burrillville to follow them. The Democrat says if they disagree with her, they should lobby at the state house — but "to secede from … our laws is not an appropriate response."

Councilman Jeremy Bailey said the town doesn't intend to enforce new laws it deems unconstitutional.

Raimondo is calling for a ban on guns in schools and a statewide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Burrillville's neighbor, Glocester, will consider a similar measure at a May 16 town council meeting.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2019-04-29/raimondo-towns-response-to-gun-bills-inappropriate

Information from: WPRO-AM, http://www.630wpro.com/

https://www.richardcyoung.com/politics/second-amendment/rhode-islands-misguided-gun-safety-task-force/

In following comments and responses on her social media pages, The People are growing more and more fed up with her. Many are questioning how she won her re-election in the November mid-terms, as she is HUGELY unpopular.

Notable: DJT Tweet: "We have 1,800 ISIS Prisoners taken hostage in our final battles to destroy 100% of the Caliphate in Syria…"

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123263699668676608

Notable: Pentagon IDs soldier who died in noncombat incident in northern Syria. o7

Pentagon IDs soldier who died in noncombat incident in northern Syria

The Defense Department has identified the American servicemember who died Monday while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve in northern Syria.

Pfc. Michael A. Thomason, 28, of Lincoln Park, Mich., died of “wounds sustained from a non-combat incident” in Kobani, Syria, according to a statement issued late Monday by the Pentagon.

Pfc. Michael A. Thomason was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), out of Fort Campbell, Ky. https://t.co/apWofvKPht

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) April 30, 2019

Thomason was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), out of Fort Campbell, Ky., the statement said.

Inherent Resolve is the U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/04/pentagon-ids-soldier-who-died-in-noncombat-incident-in-northern-syria/

Notable: New Manafort filing.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?190597

Notable: Sara Carter on Antifa wanting to stage an armed rebellion at the border.

https://saraacarter.com/fbi-report-antifa-wanted-to-stage-an-armed-rebellion-at-the-border/amp/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug&__twitter_impression=true

Notable: Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss Rosenstein’s role in the Mueller report.

.@TomFitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss Rosenstein’s role in the Mueller report:

“Rosenstein appointed that special counsel to harass @realDonaldTrump for 2 years while at the same time protecting the Clinton & Obama people who were behind the illicit targeting.”

>https://twitter.com/i/status/1123255695216746496

Notable: Boeing changes its story, admits 'software glitch' disabled critical alerts on 737 MAX.

Boeing Changes Its Story, Admits 'Software Glitch' Disabled Critical Alerts On 737 MAX

In a clarification that only created more confusion, Boeing said Monday that an alert intended to notify pilots when the plane might be receiving erroneous data from one of the 737 MAX 8's 'angle of attack' sensors wasn't disabled intentionally, as WSJ reported on Sunday, but that the feature had been disabled because of a previously undisclosed software glitch.

What's confusing is that Boeing had confirmed WSJ's story that the aerospace company had neglected to tell the FAA and Southwest, the biggest customer for the 737 MAX 8, that the alert feature had been disabled because it had been made a new 'optional' safety feature. The alerts would have warned pilots that the plane's MCAS system might be about to misfire.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72386/boeing-changes-its-story-admits-software-glitch-disabled-critical-alerts-on-737.html

Notable: Pat Shanahan Tweets in support of Juan Guaido.

The U.S. Government stands in support of interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaido and the people of Venezuela in their quest for freedom and democracy as they take back their country with #OperacionLibertad.

CST

https://twitter.com/ActingSecDef/status/1123257020583432192

Notable: Jordan: Exactly 1 year ago today.

JORDAN

Exactly 1 year ago today.

>>6371170

>>6371159

Notable: POTUS sues DB and Capital One. Documents released.

>>6370678 Baker this ties right to Q post 524

Think about it Anon's there is a reason Douche Bank is complying……

Q Posts 524 below>>>>>>

Nanacy Pelosi had a illegal bank account there.

524

Loop Capital Pay to Play

Q

!UW.yye1fxo

13 Jan 2018 - 9:45:39 PM

LOOP CAPITAL.

CEOs/BODs PAYING TO PLAY.

>Slush Fund

>>Hussein [1] $29,000,000 SINGAPORE

>>We don't say his name [2] $19,000,000 SINGAPORE

(Why don't we say his name?)

>>HRC/BC [3] $15,000,000 Banco de MEXICO

>>NP [4] $8,000,000 Deutsche Bank USA

……….ON……AND…….>ON…….

FOLLOW THE MONEY.

FOCUS on loudest voices in WASH.

Net Worth?

Reconcile?

Q

Notable: Erik Prince involvement in Venezuela?

interesting…

Erik Prince Venezuela search

has recent news on newswires

Notable: U.S. Air Force Tweet - Partnerships are the key.

U.S. Air Force Tweet - Partnerships are the key

Ties to this LB post - Exercise Eager Lion, a “keystone event” between the strategic partnership between the U.S. military and Jordan.

>>6371023 /lb

Notable: Venezuelan National Guard vehicle runs over protesters.

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1123253521309216768

Notable: Donna Brazile Tweet: Sleeper in the 2020 Democratic presidential contest.

https://twitter.com/donnabrazile/status/1123059323486244865

It's time for Big Mike to show his Dick I mean Hand

Notable: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resignation could impact Wire Act Outcome.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Resignation Could Impact Wire Act Outcome

https://www.casino.org/news/deputy-ag-rod-rosenstein-resignation-could-impact-wire-act-outcome

Notable: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire to invest $10-billion in Occidental for Anadarko buy.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire to invest $10-billion in Occidental for Anadarko buy

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc will put $10 billion behind Occidental Petroleum Corp’s bid as it tries to see off competition from Chevron Corp to buy smaller rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Occidental and Chevron Corp are locked in the biggest oil-industry takeover in years as they eye Anadarko’s prized assets in West Texas’ huge Permian shale oil field.

Anadarko on Monday agreed to start negotiations with Occidental on its $38 billion cash-and-stock bid, compared with Chevron’s offer of $33 billion.

Analysts said Buffett’s seal of approval supports Occidental’s push to get the deal done but comes at a high cost.

Berkshire’s preferred stock will accrue dividends at 8 per cent per annum, compared with about 5 per cent yield on common equity and 4 per cent on term debt, Tudor Pickering Holt analyst Matthew Portillo said.

Berkshire Hathaway will get 100,000 preferred shares and a warrant to purchase up to 80 million shares of Occidental at $62.50 apiece in a private offering.

“For Occidental shareholder, our view is this is a fairly expensive cost of financing for the transaction even though it carries a kind of nice headline of having Berkshire Hathaway participate in the potential financing here.”

Shares of Occidental were down 3.9 per cent at $57.76, while those in Anadarko were down about 1.6 per cent at $71.71. Chevron shares were up 3.5 per cent at $121.81.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, Chevron has four days after being notified by Anadarko’s board to respond with a counter-offer. If Anadarko proceeds with a sale to Occidental, it will have to pay Chevron a $1 billion deal breakup fee.

Occidental and Chevron, two of the largest oil and gas producers in the Permian by production volumes, argue they can best squeeze more oil from Anadarko’s 240,000 acres in the area.

The two companies control land adjacent to Anadarko’s properties and expect a deal will add deposits that can produce supplies for decades using low-cost drilling techniques.

Berkshire’s backing for Occidental’s bid comes after analysts’ and investors widely perceived Anadarko’s return to negotiation as a breakthrough in Occidental Chief Executive Vicki Hollub’s two-year effort to buy the company.

Berkshire’s investment is contingent upon Occidental entering into a deal with Anadarko and completing the proposed acquisition.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-warren-buffetts-berkshire-to-invest-10-billion-in-occidental-for/

See this too

U.S. SEC freezes assets over suspected insider trading in Anadarko

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday obtained an asset freeze in connection with suspected insider trading in Anadarko Petroleum Corp before the oil company agreed to be acquired by rival Chevron Corp.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-anadarko-petrol-m-a-chevron-sec/u-s-sec-freezes-assets-over-suspected-insider-trading-in-anadarko-idUSKCN1S51KF

Notable: >>6371067 Leonard Wayne stalks Devin Nunes.

Anyone know this dude?

Was following me today.

twitter.com/DevinNunes/status/1123244821571936257

Notable: Antarctic supply ship reported two dead crew.

Antarctic supply ship reported two dead crew

https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/04/30/antarctic-supply-ship-reported-two-dead-crew/

Notable: Black smoke rising from Ven. hangar.

https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1123248482121285633

Notable: Helicopter crashes onto Honolulu suburb.

Helicopter Crashes onto Honolulu Suburb

https://www.jems.com/articles/news/2019/04/helicopter-crashes-onto-honolulu-suburb.html

Notable: BREAKING: Radio Caracas Radio says it has been ordered to stop broadcasting by Venezuela's government

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1123246194153668608

Notable: FAKE News Media Given Body Blow in Court

FAKE News Media Given Body Blow in Court

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/04/fake-news-media-suffers-body-blow-on-case-linked-to-seth-rich-by-larry-johnson.html

NPR - couldn't happen to a finer bunch of progressive liars…

Notable: Minority Report: Biometric Smackdown: Backlash Grows Against Facial Recognition

Biometric Smackdown: Backlash Grows Against Facial Recognition

Stories of resistance against biometric schemes are seldom seen in established media because Big Tech lawyers head off such stories by bullying outlets with legal threats. Monsanto and Big Pharma turned this into an art form. ⁃ TN Editor

A teenager is suing Apple for $1 billion. The lawsuit, filed Monday, hinges on the alleged use of an increasingly popular — and controversial — technology: facial recognition. The tech can identify an individual by analyzing their facial features in images, in videos, or in real time.

The plaintiff, 18-year-old college student Ousmane Bah, claims the company’s facial recognition tool led to him being arrested for Apple Store thefts he didn’t commit, by mistakenly linking his name with the face of the real thief. NYPD officers came to Bah’s home last autumn to arrest him at 4 in the morning, only to discover that they apparently had the wrong guy. Bah says the whole ordeal caused him serious emotional distress. Meanwhile, Apple insists its stores do not use facial recognition tech.

Whatever the truth turns out to be in this case, Bah’s lawsuit is the latest sign of an escalating backlash against facial recognition. As the tech gets implemented in more and more domains, it has increasingly sparked controversy. Take, for example, the black tenants in Brooklyn who recently objected to their landlord’s plan to install the tech in their rent-stabilized building. Or the traveler who complained via Twitter that JetBlue had checked her into her flight using facial recognition without her consent. (The airline explained that it had used Department of Homeland Security data to do that, and apologized.)

https://www.technocracy.news/biometric-smackdown-backlash-grows-against-facial-recognition/

Notable: Egypt hands life sentences to senior Muslim Brotherhood figure and son

Egypt hands life sentences to senior Muslim Brotherhood figure and son

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court handed life sentences to Hassan Malik, a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his son Hamza and five others on Tuesday after convicting them of terrorism offences. The charges included leading a terrorist organization, supporting it financially and taking actions aimed at hurting the economy, based in part on a search of Malik’s home in which Muslim Brotherhood documents were found that allegedly outlined plots against the state, a judicial source told Reuters. The source said the documents outlined plans to damage Egypt’s economy by manipulating the value of the Egyptian pound against the dollar. They also said the documents described plans to attack armed forces, police and tourists and that they incited the use of violence to overthrow the government. The Brotherhood, Egypt’s main Islamist movement for almost a century, denies allegations of terrorism, saying it seeks political change solely by peaceful means.

Malik, a businessman, was in court for the trial, dressed in white prison garb, while his son Hamza and five other Brotherhood defendants were tried in absentia. Malik earlier denied the charges in court. Tuesday’s ruling can be appealed within two months.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization in 2014, a year after the military, then commanded by Sisi, toppled Mohamed Mursi, Egypt’s first freely elected president and a senior Brotherhood figure, following mass protests against his rule. Rights activists say Sisi has overseen a relentless clampdown on dissent in Egypt since his 2014 election. The crackdown at first targeted Islamists, including Brotherhood members, but spread to encompass political dissidents, human rights lawyers, journalists and others, says Human Rights Watch. At least 60,000 people have been jailed on political grounds, according to an HRW estimate.

Tuesday’s verdict came as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, a security ally of Sisi, was moving to designate the Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, which would bring sanctions against the veteran Islamist movement. Sisi has denied holding political prisoners and his backers say the security measures have been necessary to stabilize Egypt after its 2011 popular uprising. In a separate case, 34 people were sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday on charges including planning Islamist militant attacks in Giza and Alexandria.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-court/egypt-hands-life-sentences-to-senior-muslim-brotherhood-figure-and-son-idUSKCN1S61UO?il=0

Notable: DOJ: Jordanian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Bring Aliens into the United States

Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Jordanian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Bring Aliens into the United States

According to the plea agreement, during the second half of 2017, Aldairi conspired with others to smuggle at least six Yemeni nationals across the Texas border and into the United States in exchange for a fee. Aldairi admitted his role in transporting the aliens from Monterrey, Mexico to Piedras Negras where he directed them to cross the Rio Grande River into the United States. Aldairi provided construction hard hats and reflective vests to some of the aliens in an effort to enable them to blend in after crossing. Aldairi will be sentenced by the Honorable Alia Moses at a later date.

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"This investigation is a great example of how Homeland Security Investigations uses its worldwide resources, foreign and interagency partnerships to bring international criminals to justice in the United States,” said Special Agent in Charge Folden. “Mohammad Aldairi was a key facilitator and smuggler of Yemeni nationals; the illicit pathway he created into the U.S. is now dismantled.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jordanian-national-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-bring-aliens-united-states

Notable: Japan has new leader: NARUHITO BECOMES EMPEROR OF JAPAN

Japan has new leader

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1123240596175577088

Notable: The federal government subsidizes billionaire George Soros’s radical leftwing agenda…

Judicial Watch

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‏Verified account @JudicialWatch

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The federal government subsidizes billionaire George Soros’s radical leftwing agenda, dedicating hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to his deeply-politicized Open Society Foundations worldwide, according to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch.

Notable: LAW: Indiana Expands Gun Rights by Passing Stand Your Ground

LAW: Indiana Expands Gun Rights by Passing Stand Your Ground

Indiana has strengthened its Stand Your Ground Laws.

Eagle Country reports that House Enrolled Act 1284, colloquially known as “Kystie’s Law”, was signed into law on April 26, 2019 at the NRA national convention.

This bill was authored by State Representative Jim Lucas and was named in honor of Kystie Phillips, an Ohio County resident who fatally shot a man who was attacking an Indiana Conservation Officer.

Phillips faced a wrongful death lawsuit from the assailant’s family. The family suing Phillips eventually dropped the lawsuit this past January.

Phillips testified before House and Senate committees about her riveting experience and her support for this law. HEA 1284 made it out of the House on a 64-17 vote and was then passed in the Senate on a 37-7 vote.

At the NRA national convention in Indianapolis, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed the Stand You’re Ground bill into law.

Holcomb said, “If you’ll permit me to brag a little bit about our state, I’ll tell you that there’s simply no place more friendly and more supportive of the Second Amendment than right here on Hoosier soil.”

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/law-indiana-expands-gun-rights-by-passing-stand-your-ground/

Notable: >>6370638 China's President Xi urges youngsters to be loyal to the Communist regime in hour-long speech

>>6370638

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6975099/Xi-urges-youth-love-Communist-Party.html

'Young people must listen to the party and follow the party': China's President Xi urges youngsters to be loyal to the Communist regime in hour-long speech

Xi sought to whip up patriotic sentiment today to commemorate a landmark Chinese student protest in 1919

The movement protested against colonialism and imperialism and led to the birth of China's Communist Party

Xi said young people must 'listen to the party and follow the party' and demonstrate their life-long patriotism

He also urged them to carry on the 'revolutionary spirit' of their predecessors and establish faith in Marxism

But the powerful leader of China made no mentions of the military crackdown on a student movement in 1989

Notable: Fed pick Stephen Moore: Biggest problem to the US economy is declining 'male earnings'

Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore: Biggest problem to the US economy is declining 'male earnings'

Stephen Moore, President Donald Trump's pick for the Federal Reserve, said Tuesday the biggest problem to the US economy over the years is the decline in "male earnings."

"The biggest problem I see in the economy over the last 25 years is what has happened to male earnings – for black males and white males as well. They've been declining and that is, I think, a big problem," Moore said during an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box."

He continued: "Look I want everybody's wages to rise, of course, but you know, people are talking about women's earnings – they've risen. The problem, actually, has been the steady decline in male earnings, and I think we should pay attention to that because I think that has very negative consequences for the economy and for society."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/male-wages-stephen-moore-fed/index.html

Notable: Group of 200+ cross the #border west of Lukeville, Arizona during the night. #USBP agents on scene…

Group of 200+ cross the #border west of Lukeville, Arizona during the night. #USBP agents on scene dealing with the ongoing #humanitariancrisis. More information coming

CST

https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1123238973831127041

Notable: ICE Sends More Agents to Combat Fake Families at Border

ICE Sends More Agents to Combat Fake Families at Border

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Monday night it is reallocating resources to combat cases of fake families, who are using forged documents to enter the country and avoid detention. More agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations team have been deployed to the Southwest border to increase investigations into fraudulent family units seeking to enter the United States illegally. ICE reported that evidence of fraud was found in more than 25 family unit interviews in the month of April alone. Forged documents have included birth certificates and other documents to claim parentage. The agents also found adult illegal immigrants were using documents to claim they were minors under the age of 18.

"ICE Homeland Security Investigations is redirecting resources to the border in response to cases of fake families using forged documents to illegally enter our country and avoid detention," ICE acting director Matthew Albence said in a press statement. "Our highly-skilled teams are working to stop individuals, networks and organizations facilitating child smuggling and document fraud." Albence said that ICE and the Customs Border Patrol agency "remain committed to protecting children by ensuring they are not used as pawns by individuals attempting to gain entry to the U.S. through fraud."

Additional HSI teams are supporting CBP in El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, N.M., Eagle Pass and Harlingen, Texas, Yuma, Ariz., and El Centro and San Diego, Calif. The teams have human smuggling and trafficking expertise and include criminal analysts, interpreters, document analysts, and forensic interview and victim assistance specialists, according to ICE. In one fake family case in April, HSI agents identified two suspect family units, alleging to be two fathers and their two sons. The sons were pretending to be minors and were discovered to be 23-years-old. Another case involved an adult Honduran man, who presented a fake birth certificate for an unrelated 7-year-old with whom he was traveling. The child was turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement as an unaccompanied minor. Approximately 330 deportation officers have also been temporarily shifted to areas most impacted by the border crisis.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/ice-sends-more-agents-to-combat-fake-families-at-border/

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-shifts-resources-address-crisis-southwest-border

Notable: anon translates Guaido: The future is ours: people and armed Forces united by the cessation of usurpation.

The time is now!

The 24 states of the country have taken the road: Street without return. The future is ours: people and armed Forces united by the cessation of usurpation.

Together we are invincible! #TodaVenezuelaALaCalle

CST

https://twitter.com/jguaido/status/1123235980968976386

Notable: Afghan forces launch attacks to clear warring militants from east Afghanistan

Afghan forces launch attacks to clear warring militants from east Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan government forces have launched attacks in a bid to clear rival militants who have been battling each other for territory near the Pakistan border in fighting that has forced thousands of villagers from their homes, officials said on Tuesday.

Taliban and Islamic State militants have been fighting for more than a week in the eastern border province of Nangarhar, since Islamic State fighters seized six villages in an area where the mineral talc is mined.

There has been no comment from Islamic State or information about casualties it has sustained in the clashes, some of the heaviest between the rival Islamist factions over the past year.

The Taliban said in a statement on Tuesday that Afghan soldiers backed by U.S. forces had killed seven civilians in raids in Nangarhar, decrying their “ruthless savagery”. The statement did not give details about the continuing clashes.

Late on Monday, Afghan government forces launched attacks including air strikes to push the militants out of the area, officials said.

The main government intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, said in a statement that 22 Islamic State fighters had been killed and two of their weapons caches destroyed.

The provincial governor’s spokesman, Ataullah Khogyani, said that while Monday night’s attacks were aimed at “eliminating” Islamic State in the area, the government wanted to clear out the Taliban too.

“The government is fighting both militant groups,” Khogyani said.

Sohrab Qaderi, a provincial council member in Nangarhar, said more than 9,000 families had been displaced by the clashes between the militant groups.

Qaderi also said the government strikes did not appear to have ended the fighting between them, and that some villagers’ homes had been damaged in the air strikes.

Nangarhar province has large deposits of talc and other minerals such as chromite and marble, and sits on major smuggling routes into Pakistan.

Illegal mining of talc, used in products ranging from paint to baby powder, is a major source of revenue for insurgents in Nangarhar, where Islamic State has its stronghold.

Islamic State fighters first appeared in eastern Afghanistan in around 2014 and have battled the Taliban as well as government and foreign forces. The U.S. military estimates there are about 2,000 Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attacks/afghan-forces-launch-attacks-to-clear-warring-militants-from-east-afghanistan-idUSKCN1S61BI?il=0

Notable: DJT: No Work Permits for Migrants Seeking Asylum

Donald Trump: No Work Permits for Migrants Seeking Asylum

President Donald Trump has directed deputies to quickly draft regulations which will deny work permits to asylum-seeking illegal migrants, shorten the asylum process to 180 days, and charge migrants a fee to apply for asylum.

The new directive provides a legal foundation for the fast-track regulations when they are attacked in court by progressive judges and pro-migration groups. The regulations will be published by the end of July.

The impact of the new regulations is difficult to predict, partly because some are difficult to implement, and some will be delayed or blocked by pro-migration judges.

Also, the migrants get a vote and will work with the cartels and American lawyers to find workarounds. Democrats and GOP leaders in Congress may also try to block the rules.

Roughly 100,000 adults and children crossed the border in March. In the 12 months up to October, roughly one million poor migrants are expected to use the various catch-and-release loopholes — including requests for asylum — to stay and work in the United States for at least several years.

The migrants use the loopholes to take jobs in blue-collar workplaces, so forcing down wages for blue-collar Americans. The migrants also send their kids to the schools used by blue-collar Americans, so damaging the education received by American kids. The migrants, however, provide cheap labor for white-collar Americans, including immigration lawyers.

Roughly 800,000 migrants are into the United States waiting for asylum hearings which can be delayed for several years.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/donald-trump-no-work-permits-for-illegal-immigrants/

Notable: Rep. Democrat Nadler Suggests Jail and Fine of $20,000 per Day for Trump Officials Who Refuse Subpoenas

Democrat Nadler Suggests Jail and Fine of $20,000 per Day for Trump Officials Who Refuse Subpoenas

April 30, 2019

Rep. Nadler: “Someone is in contempt of Congress, you send the Sergeant at Arms and you arrest them. Alternatively you fine him $20,000 a day, whatever. We could do this.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/democrat-nadler-suggests-jail-and-fine-of-20000-per-day-for-trump-officials-who-refuse-subpoenas/

Notable: California college disinvites Border Patrol from job fair

California college disinvites Border Patrol from job fair

San Jose City College officials have disinvited U.S. Customs and Border Protection from a campus job fair in response to protests against the agency's presence.

"With everything that’s gone on in recent years around the issue of immigration and with border patrol and enforcement, that’s just not something that we’re comfortable with, bringing them to our campus," Ryan Brown, a spokesman for San Jose City College, told NBC Bay Area.

The news network noted that the organizer of the event had invited border patrol officials to set up a booth at a campus job fair scheduled for Tuesday.

The activist group Dump Trump San Jose took major issue with the idea, and encouraged its followers to demand that Border Patrol be prohibited from the job fair and future events at the school. It also organized a demonstration for the day of the event, which is still expected to take place.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/441317-california-college-disinvites-border-patrol-from-job-faif

Notable: New filing in Trump et al v. Deutsche Bank and Capital One: Summons Issued

New filing in Trump et al v. Deutsche Bank and Capital One: Summons Issued

CST

https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1123231490454822912

inner sauce:

https://www.usatoday.com/documents/5983394-Summons-Issued/

Notable: POTUS_Schedule: 10:30 ET, the President holds a meeting with Sen. Schumer & Speaker Pelosi to discuss infrastructure.

https://twitter.com/45__Schedule/status/1123229267251421185

POTUS_Schedule

‏ @45__Schedule

13s13 seconds ago

10:30 ET, the President holds a meeting with Sen. Schumer & Speaker Pelosi to discuss infrastructure.

Notable: >>6370075 Trump orders changes to the asylum system in memo. "safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process" Proposes charging seekers

Trump orders changes to the asylum system in memo

President Trump has ordered new and more stringent restrictions for those wishing to gain entrance into the U.S. through the asylum process. In a Monday memo to acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Attorney General William Barr, Trump ordered furterh restrictions be put in place to dampen the flow of asylum seekers. The changes include application fees and work permit restraints. The memo also directs officials to settle asylum case applications in immigration courts within 180 days of filing.

“The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process,” Trump said.

The memo did not clarify exactly how the changes would be carried out in immigration courts, which have more than 800,000 pending cases and a backlog wait time of nearly two years. Trump said that the Justice Department and Homeland Security Department have 90 days to develop proposals relating to Monday’s memo.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-orders-changes-to-the-asylum-system-in-memo

Memo;

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/29/office.of.the.press.secretary.pdf

Notable: Sec. Pompeo twat w/CAP: Today interim President Juan Guaido announced start of Operación Libertad….

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1123211995908591616

Notable: Elmwood Park, NJ mayor arrested on election tampering charges

Another Democrat Gets Arrested. NJ mayor arrested on election tampering charges.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/crime/2019/04/29/elmwood-park-nj-mayor-arrested-election-tampering-charges/3620698002/?fbclid=IwAR0XHAXCKo2-Y8JV5Igx-DrjY5CP4u2_9808Hf83Iuhoh5OYMCh0CeiHMB8

Notable: Iran designates as terrorists, all U.S. troops in Middle East

Iran designates as terrorists all U.S. troops in Middle East

LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday declaring all U.S. forces in the Middle East terrorists and calling the U.S. government a sponsor of terrorism.

The bill was passed by parliament last week in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s decision this month to designate Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist organization.

It was not clear what the impact of the new law might be on U.S. forces or their operations.

Rouhani instructed the ministry of intelligence, ministry of foreign affairs, the armed forces, and Iran’s supreme national security council to implement the law, state media reported.

The law specifically labels as a terrorist organization the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

The United States has already blacklisted dozens of entities and people for affiliations with the Guards, but until Trump’s decision not the organization as a whole.

Comprising an estimated 125,000-strong military with army, navy and air units, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) also command the Basij, a religious volunteer paramilitary force, and control Iran’s ballistic missile programs. The Guards’ overseas Quds forces have fought Iran’s proxy wars in the region.

The long-tense relations between Tehran and Washington took a turn for the worse last May when Trump pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, reached before he took office, and reimposed sanctions.

Revolutionary Guards commanders have repeatedly said that U.S. bases in the Middle East and U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf are within range of Iranian missiles.

Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iran will continue to export oil despite U.S. sanctions aimed at reducing the country’s crude shipments to zero.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-rouhani/iran-designates-as-terrorists-all-u-s-troops-in-middle-east-idUSKCN1S61GB?il=0

Notable: >>6369856 BREAKING NEWS: Pro Guaido military forces have reportedly arrested several Maduro regime military forces at a checkpoint in Caracas

Maduro regime military forces at a checkpoint

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1123207835565854722

Notable: Beto O’Rourke Ran Targeted Facebook Ads in Mexico

https://freebeacon.com/politics/beto-orourke-ran-targeted-facebook-ads-in-mexico/?

Beto O’Rourke Ran Targeted Facebook Ads in Mexico

O'Rourke is only presidential candidate running ads outside United States

Notable: >>6369595 Macron will meet italian president at Amboise on may 2nd.

reposting cause end of bread

Macron will meet italian president at Amboise on may 2nd.

For the occasion, Amboise mayor has emitted order for citizens to STAY THE FUCK AWAY OF THEIR WINDOWS, nothing less, say it's about "image"…

update : order canceled (made quite a noise on twitter), here screencap of article.

original & edited source : https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/amboise/amboise-non-l-apparition-aux-fenetres-ne-sera-pas-interdit-par-arrete-du-maire

i'll continue on that meeting in another post, cause found satanic symbolism there